In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply my life
was stained by yours~ Izumi Shikibu


I finally GET it, people!

Raise your hand if you can drive!

...

ALL of you can? Grr! =P

Ladies andgentlemen, in the midst of all this study and work mayhem (and btw, my boss gave me chocolates yesterday for being exceptionally hard working...which is weird, and I think western bosses arent used to us slightly more giving hard working asian employees, yet very sweet of him coz i think he saw i was quite down and pressured), I managed to somehow whinge about my lack of a license or driving skills just enough to get my friend to pull over while driving, into an empty parking lot and make me get into the driver's seat.

And drive.

It was so liberating.

Yes. At the age of 20 and then some months, I had never driven till that point in my life, 11:11 pm, Perth time at the Cole's parking lot. No one had ever cared or wanted to before this friend. And what a patiently wonderful teacher my friend is.

Okay, it was an illegal lesson. But freak that! I learned to start the engine, change gears, release handbrake, clutch handling and accelarator, reversing, parking, turning...all within a 40 minute span.

Of course I faltered. Of course I made the car stop every now and again. And pressed just a LITTLE too hard on the accelerator

But well,I GET it, people. I never did before and I always mocked it before. And I never had the itch to learn before. Till now.

I understand the addiction to driving now. Ive read stories,and Ive heard songs, that all sing of the fulfilment one gets from driving down a stretch of long road, of driving with no purpose of getting anywhere, of just...driving and letting it be.

I think when I get my license, Ill be one of those people who drive just to drive, and in the process, find new places, make new friends, and maybe find little bits of me here and there too.